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THE
TOPICAL TIMES.

SATURDAY, MAY 14th, 1887.

"What do you call that?" she asked her cavalier, pointing to the coil of hide in Buck Taylor's hands.

"That is a lasso, my dear, but to my thinking Miss Annie Oakley is a much prettier lass (oh)!"

Then she changed the conversation by enquiring how often the Chief of the Sioux Indians changed his red shirt.